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(OUT OF STOCK) A Bruised Idealist: David Lamson, Hopedale, and the Shakers
by Peter Hoehnle. (ACSS, no. 3) 280 pages with 15 black and white illustrations. $25. ISBN: 978-0-9796448-7-0 (2010)
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(OUT OF STOCK) A Descriptive Bibliography of Imprints from the Israelite House of David and Mary's City of David, 1902-2010
A Descriptive Bibliography of Imprints from the Israelite House of David and Mary's City of David, 1902-2010, by Henry M. Yaple. (ACSS, no. 10) 457 pp., with 93 color illustrations, paperback binding.2014. ISBN: 978-1-937370-13-8 ($75)
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An Annotated Bibliography of Inspirationist Publications in Germany and America, 1715-2013
Compiled by Lanny Haldy. (ACSS, no. 13) 175 pages with illustrations. ISBN: 978-1-937370-24-4($25)
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Beech Hill: The Reconciliation of Hervey Elkins and the Enfield Shakers
Beech Hill traces the Elkins family's forty year Shaker journey using newly discovered journals and letters. Apostate Hervey Elkins is best known for publishing Fifteen Years in the Senior Order of Shakers, an insider's account of life at Enfield, New Hampshire. Although relations between the Shakers and apostates were often quite contentious, the Elkins family papers reflect a different reality. Out of sixteen members of the Elkins family who joined the Shakers eleven apostatized, while five died in the faith. Beech Hill examines the enduring bond between the Elkinses and the Shakers- within the community, and beyond Enfield’s boundaries- recounting the Shakers’ continued relationships with apostate Elkinses, welcoming their visits, lodging with them while traveling, and writing letters providing support and advice. Combining the official Shaker record with intimate details of one family’s interactions with the Shakers affords a more positive view of relations between Shakers and
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Christoph Weber: Redware Potter of the Harmony Society
Redware was the first locally made pottery made during the early years of Euroamerican expansion across North America. Utilizing methods and stylistic conventions brought from Europe, redware potters made a variety of household wares such as pitchers, storage jars, jugs, plates, and mugs. Christoph Weber was the master potter of the Harmony Society, a German utopian group founded by religious dissenter Georg Rapp. Working from ca. 1808 to 1853, Weber’s pottery was distributed among the Society’s members and sold to their neighbors. Utilizing documentary sources, archaeological investigations, and analysis of surviving ceramics, this volume paints a detailed picture of Christoph Weber, the different types of pottery he manufactured, and his place in the early nineteenth century origins of the ceramics industry in the United States.
Michael Strezewski is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Southern Indiana. Dr. Strezewski has directed archaeological excavations in New Harmony since 2008, publishing numerous reports and articles on the Harmony Society.
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Collected Writings of Henry Cumings (1834-1913): Shaker Elder and Citizen of Enfield, New Hampshire
Compiled with introduction by Mary Ann Haagen, 259 p., illustrated. $25.
ISBN: 978-1-937370-02-2 (2012)
Henry Cumings was ten years old when he and his family joined the Enfield, New Hampshire, Shakers in 1845. Capable and intelligent, he was entrusted with increasing leadership responsibilities as he came of age. For twenty years he served as one of the Society's most eloquent spokespersons for a Shaker way of life. In 1881, at the age of forty-five, Cuming reappraised his commitment to Shakerism and left the community. He did not, however, repudiate his Shaker heritage. Between 1904 and 1913 he wrote a series of historical essays for the local newspaper, the Enfield Advocate, in which he shared his personal reflections on Shakerism. Collected here for the first time, this volume of Henry Cumings' writings offers the reader a lively and detailed account of the Shaker community he knew so well, and its influence on the town of Enfield, New Hampshire.
Shaker Studies, No. 4
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Days of My Youth: a Childhood Memoir of Life in the Oneida Community
by Corinna Ackley Noyes. (ACSS, no. 5) 106 pages. ISBN: 978-0-9796448-9-4 (2011)
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Demographic Directory of the Harmony Society
compiled by Eileen Aiken English, 2nd ed. (ACSS, no. 12) 365 pages with illustrations + 1 folder map, 2016. ISBN: 978-0-937370-19-0. This work "dramatically expands our demographic knowledge of one of America's most important communal utopian movements, the Harmony Society of George Rapp. This volume offers an indispensable resource for scholars, descendants, and those who interpret the Harmony Society for the public at its three historic towns of Harmony and Old Economy village in Pennsylvania and New Harmony, Indiana." (Donald E. Pitzer)
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Elder Rufus Bishop's Journals
Edited by Peter H. Van Demark Vol. 1: 519 pages, Vol. 2: 539 pages. ISBN: 978-1-937370-23-7 ($80)
For thirty-one years, Elder Rufus Bishop was at the top of the Shaker hierarchy.
From 1821 until his death in 1852, Elder Rufus was one of the male members of the Ministry of New Lebanon, N.Y., overseeing the bishopric, hosting visitors from other Shaker communities, and traveling to both eastern and western congregations. From 1815 until his death, and daily starting in 1829, he kept a detailed record of the weather, visitors, deaths, problems, joys, and other happenings. These volumes contain the annotated journals of Elder Rufus, a fascinating look deep into the halcyon years of the Shakers. Isaac Newton Young’s journal for their 1834 western trip is also included, to ll in the gap in Elder Rufus’s records. So many Shakers are mentioned by Elder Rufus that there are about 1750 entries in the Appendix of Biographical Sketches. These volumes also include a survey of Elder Rufus’s life and a foreword by the editor, who is the third great-grandnephew of Elder Rufus. The hope is that these journals will aid Shaker scholarship and help with the understanding of this important period in Shaker history.
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Encyclopedic Guide to American Intentional Communities (2nd Edition)
by Timothy Miller. (ACSS, no. 11) 2nd Edition 597 pages. ISBN: 978-1-937370-15-2 (2015)
Commune! The word conjures up images of a few isolated idealists, religious fanatics, and social misfits. A commune is a decidedly marginal blip on the American landscape. Nevertheless communes have studded American history -- many thousands of them from the seventeenth century to the present. Although many have heard of the Shakers and (perhaps) the Hutterites and the Harmonists, communes -- most of which now prefer to be known as intentional communities -- represent a largely hidden slice of American history, despite the fact that they have been home to over a million Americans. Many small studies and surveys of American communal movements have been published over the last two hundred years, but the phenomenon of communal living in its fullness remains largely in the shadows. This work has been compiled to dispel those shadows by providing brief sketches of as many American intentional communities as I have been able to identify from the early days of European colonization down to the present [approximately 3,000]. The work also seeks to provide a few reliable references to primary and secondary sources of information on each community. This second edition contains descriptions of twenty additional communities, and additions and corrections to descriptions of over one hundred communities included in the first edition.
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History of the Shakers at New Lebanon by Isaac Newton Youngs, 1780-1861
Edited by Glyndyne R. Wergland and Christian Goodwillie, 277 p. ISBN: 978-1-937370-22-0 ($40)
Shaker Brother Isaac Newton Youngs served his community at New Lebanon, New York, as a tailor, clockmaker, mapmaker, mechanic, inventor, musician and hymn writer, lens-grinder, stonecutter, button maker, bookkeeper, journalist, tinsmith, printer, pipe fitter, joiner, and blacksmith. He built a sundial, made tools including a weaver’s reed, turned clothespins, made knitting needles, and laid floors. He was also an architect and roofer. Few aspects of life at New Lebanon were outside of Youngs’s sphere of activity. Therefore, it is fitting that he undertook to write a comprehensive history of his community, systematically treating all facets of Shaker life and culture. Youngs’s A Concise View Of the Church of God and of Christ, On Earth is printed here for the first time in unabridged form. The editors have carefully transcribed and annotated the text, and have selected illustrations to complement Youngs’s descriptive text. Additionally, appendices supplying vital statistics, and information on the occupations of New Lebanon Shakers (many of which were compiled by Youngs) are included. Finally, a selection of Youngs’s poetry rounds out a rich portrait of the lives and talents of Brother Isaac Newton Youngs, and his beloved Shaker brethren and sisters, as they labored humbly in the creation of a unique world where work was worship, and heaven was all around them.
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Imagining the Shakers
Shaker Studies, no.15. 338 pages, Full Color Illustrations, 2019. ISBN: 978-1-937370-28-2 ($45)
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In the half century between 1830 and 1880 the visual culture of America's oldest, largest, and most distinctive communal religious society was portrayed in scores of printed images published in the popular illustrated press. In this complement to his 1987 book Shaker Village Views, Robert P. Emlen identifies and explicates every known engraving or lithograph that pictured the Shakers in the years of their greatest prosperity and before photography became popular in Shaker communities. Many of these images are reproduced here for the first time.
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Independency of the Mind: Aquila Massie Bolton, Poetry, Shakerism, and Controversy
by Sandra A. Soule, 105 pages. $10.
ISBN: 978-0-9796448-6-3 (2010)
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Iroquois-Language Manuscripts, ca. 1768-1803: the Samuel Kirkland Papers
by Clifford Abbott (Author), Karim M. Tiro (Author)
A comprehensive collection of more than thirty Iroquois language documents from the Samuel Kirkland Papers at Hamilton College. Dating from 1768-1803, these manuscripts have been transcribed, transliterated, and translated, many for the first time. The volume includes line-by-line photographic illustrations of each letter, along with the translator's work. Each document is then given in full facsimile, and full translation. Introductory essays by the compilers examine Iroquois literacy and linguistics as illustrated by the documents.
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Jazz Tales from Jazz Legends: Oral Histories from the Fillius Jazz Archive at Hamilton College
by Monk Rowe with Romy Britell, foreward by Dan Morgenstern. 209 pages with 13 black and white illustrations, 2015. ISBN: 978-1-937370-17-6
Distills an oral history project that began in 1995 under the auspices of the Fillius Jazz Archive at Hamilton College in Clinton N.Y. Excerpts drawn from 325 one-on-one sessions conducted for the Archive are organized into categories including first-hand accounts of life on the road, inspiration, race and jazz, improvisation, and work inside the studios. Interviewees quoted in the book include icons in the jazz world such as Joe Williams, Dave and Iola Brubeck, Jon Hendricks, Steve Allen, and Marian McPartland. Stories from unsung sidemen offer a rare perspective on the life and times of jazz artists who balance the love of music with the sacrifice inherent in the jazz lifestyle. The author provides informative commentary with personal insights into the accomplishments and personalities of over one hundred jazz artists.
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John Humphrey Noyes on Sexual Relations in the Oneida Community: Four Essential Texts
edited with Introductions by Anthony Wonderley. (ACSS, no. 8) 165 pages, ill. ; 23 cm. ISBN: 978-1-937370-04-6 (2012)
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At the height of the prudish Victorian age, the utopian Oneida Community (1848-1880) openly practiced group marriage which, it was said, freed women from unwanted pregnancy, marital bondage, and household drudgery. This radically successful social experiment was based on the teachings of the commune's leader, John Humphrey Noyes, whose key writings on gender relations are assembled here for the first time.
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Last Shaker Apostate: Augustus Wager and Union Village, Ohio
BY THOMAS SAKMYSTERShaker Studies 13
153 p. ISBN: 978-1-937370-25-1 ($20)
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My San Francisco
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Partake a Little Morsel: Popular Shaker Hymns of the Nineteenth Century
by Carol Medlicott, 89 p. , ill., music, 26 cm. $15.
ISBN: 978-1-937370-00-8 (2011)
Among the various forms of Shaker song, hymns have sustained the worship of the United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing?—?or Shakers?—?for over two hundred years. Distinguished from other song types by their lengthy texts of metrical rhymed poetry, hymns can accommodate an endless range of theological and spiritual ideas. During the nineteenth century, Shakers produced hundreds of individual hymns, which were recorded by countless individual Shakers in myriad manuscript hymn books. Yet from this enormous body of hymnody, a core group of hymns readily emerges?—?hymns that were used and beloved for decades across the Shaker world, from Maine to Kentucky. Remarkably, the hymns in this core group are virtually unknown today. This study helps today’s reader to “partake a little morsel” of a relatively untapped vein of American folk hymnody, revealing a fresh understanding of the Shakers’ amazing complexity and vitality.
Shaker Studies, No. 3
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Picturing the Shakers in the Era of Manifestations
By Robert P. Emlen. This collection assembles for the first time the rich body of visual images depicting the Shakers during the Era of Manifestations. This tumultuous time of spiritual revival within Shaker communities brought Believers into contact with visitors from the spirit world who taught them new songs, dances, and rituals, as well as prescribing new codes of conduct. Events during the Era of Manifestations also caused many to lose the faith and leave Shaker communities. Some of these apostates took the songs and dances they learned among Believers and traversed the country giving performances. Book illustrations picturing true Shaker worship and sensational engravings on commercial handbills depicted Shakers and former Shakers in a variety of contexts, and many images appeared in multiple variations. They are presented here accompanied by an essay contextualizing the Shakers, the apostates, and the worldly artists and promoters who pictured the Shakers for the American public. Contain 44 illustrations, many never before published. Robert P. Emlen is university curator and senior lecturer in American Studies, Brown University; and adjunct faculty, Department of the History of Art and Visual Culture, Rhode Island School of Design.
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President's Medium
The President's Medium collects and carefully examines the available material on the colorful but nearly forgotten life of spiritualist medium John Benjamin Conklin and concludes that he most likely conducted private seances at the White House for a receptive Abraham Lincoln during the time the president was weighing the issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation. It also examines Conklin's association with communitarians and health reformers Thomas L. and Mary S. Grove Nichols, as well as his connections within the theatrical community of New York City during the 1850s.
Dr. John B. Buescher is the author of books and articles on the history of 19th-century American Spiritualism. He is a co-director of the International Association for the Preservation of Spiritualist and Occult Periodicals (IAPSOP).
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Prison Diary and Letters of Chester Gillette: September 18, 1907 through March 30, 1908
edited by Jack Sherman and Craig Brandon. 193 pages with 32 black and white illustrations. $25. ISBN: 978-0-9796448-1-8 (2007)
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Promising Venture: Shaker Photographs from the WPA (Softcover)
by Lesley Herzberg. 239 pages with 214 black and white illustrations. $25. ISBN: 978-1-937370-07-9 (2012) Softcover
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Robert White Jr. "Spreading the Light of the Gospel"
by Sandra A. Soule, 79 pages with 32 black and white illustrations. $9.
ISBN: 978-0-9796448-4-9 (2009)
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Seeking Robert White: Quaker, Shaker, Husband, Father
Robert White's spiritual journey eventually led him to the Shakers, but, much to his dismay, his wife did not share his views and remained committed to Quakerism. As a married, celibate Believer, Robert White had to balance the often-conflicting roles he played in his two families, natural and Shaker. How he functioned as a Shaker convert living "in the world" is a story of faith and challenges; an exceptional Shaker experience in the mid-nineteenth century. by Sandra A. Soule, 428 pp., illustrations (some color) , paperback binding, 23 cm., 2016. ISBN: 978-1-937370-18-3 ($35)
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Selected Catalog of the Ezra Pound Collection at Hamilton College
compiled with notes by Cameron McWhirter and Randall L. Ericson. 299 pages with 123 illustrations (mostly color). $20. (2005)
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Shaker "Great Barns" 1820s-1880s: Evolution of Shaker Dairy Barn Design and Its Relation to the Agricultural Press
by Lauren A. Stiles, 188 pages, illustrations, 26 cm. $20
ISBN: 978-1-937370-07-7
Shaker leaders built big dairy barns, sent articles and barn diagrams to the specialized agricultural press, and hosted editors and writers on barn tours. This richly illustrated book explores the unexpected relationship between nineteenth century Shaker religious leaders and scientific agricultural journalists.
Shaker Studies, No. 5
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Shaker Cut-and-Fold Booklets: Unfolding the Gift Drawings of Emily Babcock
by Sandra A. Soule, 97 pages, illustrations, 28 cm., 2014. ISBN: 978-1-937370-09-1
Cut-and-fold booklets are one of the more unusual forms of gift drawings created in the early 1840s during the Shakers' internal revival known as Mother's Work. This study unfolds some of the puzzling aspects of these heavenly communications.
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Shaker Spiritual Notices of Eleanor Potter
by Jane F. Crosthwaite, 45 pages, illustrations, 31 cm., $30
ISBN: 978-1-937370-09-1
Reproduces four sixteen-page manuscript books by Eleanor Potter which record her spirit messages for the leaders of the Shaker Ministry. These manuscripts include spirit drawings as well as text. Crosthwaite provides an introductory essay setting the context for the messages and an analysis of them.
Shaker Studies, No. 7
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Shaker Visions of the Divine: Essays on their Sacred Art and Scripture
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Shakers of Enfield, Connecticut 1780-1968
The Shaker community at Enfield, Connecticut, lasted from 1792 to 1914. Shaker founder Mother Ann Lee gathered converts there, and her successor Father Joseph Whittaker ministered to them before he died there in 1787. This is the first book devoted to telling the 130-year story of this relatively unknown celibate Christian community. Additionally, eighteen appendices provide rich primary source information for further research.ISBN: 978-1-937370-29-9
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Shakers of White Water, Ohio, 1823-1916
The Shakers of White Water, Ohio, 1823-1916, edited by James R. Innis, Jr., and Thomas Sakmyster, 311 pp., with 90 b/w illustrations, 22 music scores, 9 poems, and 9 maps, paperback binding, 26 cm., 2014. ISBN: 978-1-937370-12-1 ($30)
This work is a comprehensive examination of the history and life of White Water Village by leading experts on the community. As an offshoot of Union Village, the “mother” of Ohio Shaker communities, White Water has received scant attention in the past. This work rectifies the situation and serves as an example of what should be done for all of the Shaker communities.
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Shakers through French Eyes
by E. Richard McKinstry. (ACSS, no. 6) 212 pages. ISBN: 978-1-937370-01-5 (2011)
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Symbols in the Wilderness: Early Masonic Survivals in Upstate New York
Freemasonry played a vital role in the social development of New York State. Its Lodges provided a trusted place for newcomers to meet and for friendships and business partnerships to develop, free from political, professional, and sectarian differences. During its explosive growth from 1790 to the end of the 1820s Masonic brethren produced iconic architecture, as well as extraordinary examples of folk art, expressed in large symbolic paintings (“tracing boards”), murals, textiles, and graphics. Most of these have remained entirely unknown outside the Upstate Lodges that, against all hazards, have preserved them. Their symbolism seems mysterious and confusing to outsiders, but once explained, it gives insight into a period and place unique in American history.
Joscelyn Godwin is professor of music at Colgate University. Christian Goodwillie is director and curator of Special Collections, Burke Library, Hamilton College. Marianita Peaslee is the digital imagery specialist, Burke Library, Hamilton College.
Upstate Institute and Richard W. Couper Press, 181 pages
ISBN- 9781937370213
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The Era of Manifestations in the Shaker West
This study—the first of of its kind— is a comprehensive examination of one of the most fascinating and colorful periods of American religious history: the Shakers’ Era of Manifestations. Based on a comprehensive reading of primary sources from Shaker communities in Ohio and Kentucky, this volume documents the spiritual highs and lows promulgated by Shaker visionists (spirit mediums) as their gifts impacted their communities in a variety of ways —both positive and negative. Visits from Mother Ann Lee, Holy Mother Wisdom, the Eternal Father, and the Holy Savior (Jesus) are detailed herein, as well as the establishment of outdoor worship sites—Feast Grounds—the reception of gift songs, new dances, and most intriguing of all, interactions with the departed of many races and nations, including an exceptional series of encounters with Indigenous American (Indian) spirits, historical figures like George Washington, and many Shaker founders.
Thomas Sakmyster is an emeritus professor at the University of Cincinnati, where he was the Walter Langsam Professor of Modern European History. He has published widely on his areas of specialization, including modern East European history, the American Communist Party, world communism, and Shaker history. He is co-editor of The Shakers of White Water, 1823-1916 and author of The Last Shaker Apostate: Augustus Wager and Union Village, Ohio and articles on various themes in the history of the Shakers.
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The Mental Mechanism of Dr. Sivartha
Who was Dr. Alesha Sivartha, the visionary artist whose strange inscribed mind maps, occult diagrams, and painstaking anatomical drawings were printed in a variety of obscure books and pamphlets in the late nineteenth century?
Religious historian John Buescher here draws Dr. Sivartha out of mysterious obscurity and traces the story of his wild life, from his birth as Elisha Holmes Dodge in upstate New York in 1834, to his transformation, under the name of Arthur E. Merton, into a phrenologist, free-lover, utopian socialist, and cult leader. At the time of his death in 1915, he had assumed the name of Alesha Sivartha, and transformed himself into an occult documentarian who sought to map the structures of the “New Jerusalem” onto the biological and chemical world. This richly illustrated volume includes an extensive album of Sivartha’s drawings.
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The Shakers: A Bibliography
The Shakers: A Bibliography,
Randall Ericson, Christian Goodwillie, David D. Newell, Cassandra B. Nawrocki.
Four volumes, 2023.
ISBN 978-1-937370-35-0 ($150 plus $20 shipping)
Description: The Shakers: A Bibliography comprises more than 17,500 entries for printed materials by and about the United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing, more commonly called Shakers. This work more than quadruples the number of entries contained in Mary Richmond’s Shaker Literature (1977), the standard bibliography on the Shakers until now. The product of fifteen years of painstaking research by a team of bibliographers, The Shakers: A Bibliography comprehensively documents the written record of this remarkably influential communal Christian sect. Each entry provides publication information, annotation and commentary, and holdings information. Additionally, brief biographies are provided for a number of Shaker authors. The Shakers: A Bibliography provides scholars with a tremendous amount of new source material and information to undergird future research and writing about the United Society.
$170 (includes $20 shipping charge, more for international orders)
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Tyringham Shakers
by Stephen J. Paterwic, 142 pages, illustrations, 23 cm., $20
ISBN: 978-1-937370-08-4
A compilation of essays and statistical information on the Tyringham Shakers, by one the leading scholars on that community. It is the largest compilation of information on Tyringham in one source. It includes a series of rare of photographs of the village.
Richard W. Couper Press
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Shaker Studies
These are monographs devoted to the study of the Shakers. This series complements two other offerings from the Couper Press: The American Communal Societies Quarterly and the American Communal Socieites series.
To purchase items, contact Mark Tillson, 315-859-4705, mtillson@hamilton.edu.
Publications
Shaker Studies, No. 7 (available soon)The Shaker Spiritual Notices of Eleanor Potter
The Shaker Spiritual Notices of Eleanor Potter, by Jane F. Crosthwaite, 45 pages, illustrations, 31 cm., $30
ISBN: 978-1-937370-09-1
Reproduces four sixteen-page manuscript books by Eleanor Potter which record her spirit messages for the leaders of the Shaker Ministry. These manuscripts include spirit drawings as well as text. Crosthwaite provides an introductory essay setting the context for the messages and an analysis of them.
Shaker Studies, No. 6
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Universal Magic in the Age of Enlightenment: Touzay Du Chenteau's Great Philosophic Chart and Its Context
This Chart, comprising four huge copperplates engraved in 1775 by Du Chenteau himself, is a monumental attempt to unite ceremonial magic, Kabbalah, alchemy, Hermetic philosophy, and the science of number. In memorable images, many borrowed from the Rosicrucian philosopher Robert Fludd, it depicts a cosmos emanating from the mind of God, structured by correspondences, and culminating in the human being (the Microcosm), whose body and soul reflect the Macrocosm. Du Chenteau, a practicing alchemist and member of esoteric Masonic orders, represents an “enlightenment” very different from the secular and materialistic trends of his time. His work is a visual encyclopedia, forming a bridge between the late Renaissance world view and the occult revival of the nineteenth century. This edition sets Du Chenteau’s Chart in its historical context, traces all its sources, translates its texts from the original French, and explains its arcane imagery. An Appendix by Antoine Faivre, Professor at the Sorbonne, tells of Du Chenteau’s life, his friends, and his bizarre spiritual practices.
Joscelyn Godwin is Emeritus Professor of Music, Colgate University. He has published two books on Robert Fludd and many other works on esoteric topics, including Harmonies of Heaven and Earth, The Theosophical Enlightenment, Music and the Occult, Upstate Cauldron, and, co-authored with Christian Goodwillie, Symbols in the Wilderness: Early Masonic Survivals in Upstate New York (Couper Press of Hamilton College and Upstate Institute of Colgate University, 2016).
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Visiting the Shakers, 1778-1849: Watervliet, Hancock, Tyringham, New Lebanon
edited by Glendyne Wergland. (ACSS, no. 1) 382 pages with 15 black and white illustrations. $35. ISBN: 978-0-9796448-0-1 (2007)
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Visiting the Shakers, 1850-1899: Watervliet, Hancock, Tyringham, New Lebanon
edited by Glendyne R. Wergland. (ACSS, no. 2) 456 pages with 45 black and white illustrations. $35. ISBN: 978-0-9796448-5-6 (2010)
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Wilhelm Weitling's Tour of American Communal Societies, 1851-1852
German Socialist Wilhelm Weitling visited eight American intentional communities during 1851-1852. He published accounts of these visits in his newspaper, Die Republik der Arbeiter. These accounts have been almost entirely unknown to scholars, until now. This volume contains Joscelyn Godwin’s translations; introduced, annotated, and illustrated by Peter Hoehnle, bringing Weitling’s descriptions of his communal odyssey to students of American communal societies who cannot read German. Communities visited include: the Shakers at Watervliet, New York; the Community of True Inspiration at Eben-Ezer, New York; the Society of Separatists at Zoar, Ohio; Communia, Iowa; the Icarian Community at Nauvoo, Illinois; Bishop Hill Colony, Illinois; the Harmony Society at Economy, Pennsylvania; and Bethel, Missouri.
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Worthy Virgins: Mary Purnell and Her City of David
The Worthy Virgins: Mary Purnell and her City of David, by Julieanna Frost. (ACSS, no. 9) 161 pp., with 19 b/w illustrations, paperback binding, 2014. ISBN: 978-1-937370-14-5 ($15)
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Writings From Wallingford: The Connecticut Outpost of the Oneida Community
Daughter colony of America's most successful utopian experiment (1848-1880), the Wallingford commune was the Oneida Community's pastoral getaway. It was also the place silverware was created, the industry that would support Oneida's successor organization, Oneida Ltd., through the twentieth century. Although a substantial part of Oneida's history, Wallingford's story has never been told. This first study features about a dozen accounts by the communards, nearly forty vintage photographs and other illustrations, and commentaries by the editor.
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